Analyzing sentiments in Web 2.0 social media data in Chinese: Experiments on business and marketing related Chinese Web forums

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 231-242

  Fan, Li ^a   Zhang, Yulei ^b   Dang, Yan ^b   Chen, Hsinchun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese sentiment analysis; Social media; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884597314     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: 15737667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-013-0160-2     Document Type: Article

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